I am a Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, working on numerical modeling of reactive flows with detailed kinetics, with a specific focus on the formation and emissions of pollutants (NOx, PAHs, and soot). I am the main developer of OpenSMOKE++, a comprehensive framework for numerical simulations of reacting systems with complex chemistry, adopted by numerous academic research groups engaged in the development and application of detailed kinetic mechanisms.
Over the past few years, I gradually shifted the focus of my research on the development and implementation of numerical techniques for accelerating multidimensional CFD simulations with chemical reactions using machine learning algorithms. In addition, I am interested in the multiscale analysis of multiphase flows and catalytic processes and the numerical modeling of heterogeneous catalytic reactors. In collaboration with Prof. Maestri, I contributed to the development of catalyticFOAM, a specialized CFD code for simulating catalytic reactors using a microkinetic description of surface reactivity.